I wrote about the ProgrammableWeb site back in March 2006. It had listed 20 mapping applications with open APIs and 379 mashups using these applications. For example, there is 1001 Secret Fishing Holes – “Over a thousand fishing spots in national parks, wildlife refuges, lakes, campgrounds, historic trails etc.” I checked it out and it really works.
Both the fishing holes and the ProgrammableWeb are still going strong. The ProgrammableWeb now lists 2082 mashups and 466 APIs. A few days ago Facebook Answers was the mashup of the day. “Ask questions and get quick answers from your Facebook friends. Answer questions and earn points. See how you rank against other Facebook experts.” There is a nice section on How To Make Your Own Web Mashup. Thanks to John Maloney for reminding me of this site. They also have a ProgrammableWeb blog. 
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enterprise social media
Bill, a bit long time to post a commnet.
FYI, IBM has just released a great tool for data mashup called, DAMIA that is
Through a Web-based interface, IBM® DAMIA provides easy-to-use tools that developers and IT users alike can use to quickly assemble data feeds from the Internet and a variety of enterprise data sources. The benefits of this service include the ability to aggregate and transform a wide variety of data or content feeds, which can be used in enterprise mashups
You can get more info here
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/damia/
and good video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lEUgySRDL0
Enjoy.
Posted by: Tomoaki Sawada | August 20, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Thanks Tomoaki. I will look into this new tool. Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | August 20, 2007 at 07:30 AM
Bill, again IBM posted a series of movies about their Mashup activity on YouTube.
You can see it on my blog in summary.
http://jisi.dreamblog.jp/blog/1175.html
Posted by: Tomoaki Sawada | August 25, 2007 at 02:34 AM